US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Aug. 12 for "Security / automation system control panel with short range communication disarming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,591, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Security / automation system control panel with short range communication disarming" was invented by Walter Wallach (San Jose, Calif.), Anand Sastry (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and David Pulling (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising receiving, by a short range communication radio in a control panel, a short range communication signal transmitted by a device; determining, by the control panel, whether the device is a known device;...